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...home-and-home series, with the second game scheduled for April 25. Last spring's first meeting saw the Crimson beat the visitors 2-1 in 11 innings. Waldstein, going the route, struck out 11 and held B. U. of four hits to break a two-year Terrier jinx...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY NINE TO FACE B. U. IN 1ST HOME GAME | 4/10/1942 | See Source »

...Jinx" Falkenburg, who was a leader in the 1941 publicity race for the Manhattan glamor stakes and then returned to Hollywood, asked a Los Angeles judge to shorten her name to plain Jinx. She said she figured that having the new name in electric lights instead of the old one would save the nation enough power to produce 26,000 lb. of aluminum. The judge reserved his decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: To Have & Have Not | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

...Fenn as "In our class." Navy and the University of Maryland, the other opponents, have never been downed by the Crimson, and since the team will not have a field on which to practice until it makes the Southern trip, there seems to be little chance that the jinx will be broken this spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Balanced Team Viewed As Lacrosse Strength | 3/19/1942 | See Source »

...despite this weakness, the poetic brilliance of the second issue of Trend has both the originality and pertinence, requisite for successful undergraduate literary effort, and subscribers may rejoice that the publication has not fallen before the "Sophomore Jinx." Improved in appearance and more experimental in context, this copy is a worthy complement to its sloppier but more staid predecessor...

Author: By T. S. K., | Title: ON THE SHELF | 2/27/1942 | See Source »

...since the rivalry opened in 1931 have the Indians succeeded in beating the Crimson tankmen, but this year Dartmouth rules a slight favorite to break the long-standing jinx. Unless the Crimson has all the breaks in today's meet, the chances are the Big Green will prove too strong and will take the meet handily...

Author: By Burton VAN Vort, | Title: SWIMMERS ARE UNDERDOGS IN TODAY'S MEET | 2/6/1942 | See Source »

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